A serial romance is of course a romance that a person reads in installments. Most of Charles Dickens' novels were first published in serial form. So it's a time-honored way of publishing fiction.
It's not done a lot in print any more but with the birth of digital publication, it has new life. Have you ever visited Wattpad? It is a website where authors, some published and some unpublished, post books chapter by chapter or scene by scene. And readers can leave comments and vote for the books.
This is just one way authors are trying to find new ways to connect with readers.
I experimented with this a few years ago on my blog.
I serially posted the very first romance I'd ever penned, titled La Belle Christiane, on my blog in installments, 3 scenes a week MWF January through July. (It was a long manuscript!).
Doing this gave me a chance to revise it with weekly deadlines and it also gave me a way to gauge whether readers found it interesting or not.
Overwhelmingly I got a thumbs-up from my blog subscribers and I received good feedback on what readers liked or didn't.
Though I've since published this book in ebook and print, I still have this book archived on my website. If you'd like to read it, click here.
That brings me to my latest venture (or adventure). I had already written the sequel to La Belle Christiane, which is Lady Sarah. At first I thought I'd post it on my blog and then decided to try another experiment.
This time I'm not posting the manuscript scene by scene on my blog, I'm sending it out one chapter a week to my enewsletter subscribers. I'm about halfway through this process.
So my question:
Would you like to receive a chapter a week of a romance by email?
If you would, drop by my website and enter your email in the enewsletter box in the banner. (BTW Since you'd be starting in the middle, I will email the earlier chapters to new subscribers.)BLURB:
An American Regency Set in Creole New Orleans
In the early days of the new American nation, fifteen year old Sarah Eastham has all the advantages of social position, wealth and influential friends till an old secret is revealed and plunges her into scandal, one not of her making. Her whole life is upturned and she makes a crucial and disastrous decision to marry the wrong man...
